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C. W. SALADEE. Road Wagon.

No. 233,438. Patented Oct. 19, 1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CYRUS W. SALADEE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

ROAD-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,438, dated October 19, 1880.

Application filed August 10, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may oonoem Be it known that I, GYRUs W. SALADEE, of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented an Improvement in Road Wagons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed, first, as an improvement upon road-wagons having a rigid frame with side bars orperches,between which are suspended semi-elliptic side springs supporting the body; and, second, upon all other forms of spring-platform wherein a central spring-brace is required to prevent the longitudinal movement of the body and front axle; and has for its object a more simple, cheap, and perfect construction of gearin gand springplatform than is now attainable under any of the known methods of building wagons ofthe class t0 which my invention may apply.

In my Patent No. 148,497, March 10, 1874, I show substantially the same combination of parts constituting the rear half of the gearing shown in the drawings-viz., side bars or perches, A, and side springs, B, the latter arranged between the bars A, with their ends hinged to a conneeting-rod,1; but I add to the combination shown in my above-named patent a spring-brace, whereby to prevent any longitudinal movement of the body and front axle.

1n the-drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of so much of a road-wagon as will illustrate my invention, and Fig. 2. is a top or plan view of the same.

A A are the side bars or perches, arranged parallel to each other, or diverging, as in dotted lines A', Fig. 2; or the rigid frame may be made otherwise. B B are the supportingsprings of the body E. N N are cross-bars connecting the side springs, B. S is a crossbrace extending from the side springs or body to the central spring-brace, C, below. H and G are the axles, and-F the bolster. C is the central spring-brace, which attaches at L to the center ofthe front axle and extends back and is bent up and is secured to the crossbars N N by bolts or clips R; but, if desired, the cross-bars N may be omitted,the body resting on the blocks D, and the end of the brace C being attached directlyto the bottom of the body; butI prefer the combination of the crossbars N with the spring-brace C C2, as shown 5e in the drawings, in all cases where side springs are employed. If, however, the side bars or perches A take the position seen in dotted lines A, Fig. 2, or end elliptic springs, B B', (seen in dotted lines, Fig. l.) are substituted for the side springs, I brace the central springbrace directly, instead of indirectly, as before, to the bottom ofthe body, as at C3, Fig. l, and attach the ends of the cross-brace S also to the sides of the body; but where the body rests on 6o end springs it is best-to make the front end of the spring-brace of the form shown by dotted lines, Fig. 1, whereby to prevent its pushing the front axle forward when the springs are depressed under the load. 6

The front ends of the side springs are hinged to the bolster, as at K K, and their rear ends to the connecting-rod I, as at J J; but, if preferred, the connecting-rod may be omitted and the rear ends of the side springs hinged to 7o movable links, in the usual way. Thus I provide against the longitudinal movement of the body as well as brace the front axle against the draft applied thereto when the wagon is in use, while placing the spring-platform in a position to hang the body high on the frame.

I claiml. In a road-wagon having a rigid frame and body-supporting` spring-platform, a springbrace connected at the front end below the 8o front axle and at the rear end below the body, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the rigid frame and spring-platform consisting of springsB B, connected to the axle and equalizing bar, of a 8 5 spring-brace connecting the front axle and the platform, to prevent the longitudinal thrust of the body, substantially as set forth.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresenceof two sub- 9o scribing witnesses. l

CYRUS W. SALADEE.

Witnesses:

GIDEoN H. WELCH, WILLIAM PAx'roN. 

